普拉 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

Pǔlā

Pula

pǔ universal

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 並 represents the sound.

Components

side by side

Change in sound

普 and 並 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
普 pʰaːʔ
並 *[b]ˤeŋʔ

日 Meaning component

rì sun

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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谱氆镨譜潽

Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	pʰaːʔ

說文解字

《說文》：“暜，日無色也。从日，从竝。”

Sources

Character origin: zdic
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

lā, la pull

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

立 Sound component

lì stand

Change in sound

拉 and 立 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
拉 lop
立 lip

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啦

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lop	[r]ˤəp	break

說文解字

《說文》：“拉，摧也。从手，立聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

普 pǔ universal

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拉 lā, la pull

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pǔ universal

lā, la pull